From the Courts
April 18, 2019
A prisoner who beat a fellow inmate, causing him to become paralysed from the chest down, has been sentenced to eight years incarceration. Yesterday, ...
From the Courts
April 18, 2019
Two men, who committed the same crime of stabbing a man with switch blades will both be incarcerated, but the sentence of one will more than double th...
From the Courts
April 12, 2019
FOUR MEN have been convicted for having in their possession over 2000 pounds of cannabis. Last Friday, Danile Baptiste, 39 of Petit Bordel; Denzil Sam...
From the Courts
April 12, 2019
TWO OTTLEY HALL residents, including one recently charged with unlawfully discharging a gun at policemen, have been brought to court charged for posse...
From the Courts
April 12, 2019
A MAN claiming to be in process of securing a traditional cultivator’s licence was given bail in relation to 5,054 g of cannabis, while his story is b...
From the Courts
April 9, 2019
Bail has been set at $15,000 for two men from Ottley Hall who are facing numerous cocaine related charges. Junior ‘South’ James, a dock worker and Jos...
From the Courts
April 5, 2019
PERSONS WHO DID not take up the government’s tax amnesty offer in 2018 may soon find themselves before the local courts on tax evasion charges. Speaki...
From the Courts
April 5, 2019
A “HOT TEMPERED” “braggadocious” resident of Layou who stabbed someone three times because he looked at him, was given a 13-year prison sentence last ...
From the Courts
April 5, 2019
A MOTHER accused of locking her children in the house, after which an inferno blazed through taking the life of her youngest, will stand trial at the ...
From the Courts
April 5, 2019
FOR PERMANENTLY disabling a bus conductor in their attempt to take his life, two brothers will be incarcerated for close to 13 years. Kevin Chance and...
From the Courts
April 2, 2019
The court has found that there are no rules prohibiting persons from taking a photograph of their ballot in the voting booth. Voter Deryck Smart has f...
From the Courts
April 2, 2019
In 2012, at Layou, Andy ‘Ginger’ Quashie walked up to the man who had called him a “pussy” as he lay wounded on the ground, and, using a shotgun, he e...
From the Courts
April 2, 2019
The court has found that there was no breach of secrecy at the polls in 2015, but noted that even if there had been, this breach could not invalidate ...
From the Courts
April 2, 2019
Last year, MASSY Supermarket’s “No vending no loitering sign” was plucked by a protesting 17-year-old vendor; an action costing the teenager a crimina...
From the Courts
April 2, 2019
Love has been lost between two relatives, and the police called in, after one stole $600 from the other. On March 20, Tracey McKenzie of Fitzhughes ga...
From the Courts
March 29, 2019
It is not every breach that results in an election being invalidated. This was the ruling of Justice Stanley John on the concerns raised surrounding t...
From the Courts
March 29, 2019
The court has found that the claim that ballots used in the 2015 general elections were pre-printed with the official mark and issued by the Superviso...
From the Courts
March 29, 2019
A man who was on remand for nearly 11 years for the vicious murder of a 73-year-old retired librarian, will spend another 13 years imprisoned. Junior ...
From the Courts
March 29, 2019
The Ottley Hall teenager shot dead by police earlier this month has been laid to rest, but his family’s questions surrounding his death have not. Alwy...
From the Courts
March 26, 2019
The cost that the petitioners are to pay to the respondents in the recently completed Election Petitions case will be substantial. Last Thursday, Just...
From the Courts
March 26, 2019
A Barrouallie van driver has been made to pay over $700 for making a river in Layou his trash can. Gideon Nash, the managing director of Nature Care S...
From the Courts
March 22, 2019
The court can find no evidence to support the major issues raised by the petitioners and canvassed during the trial, Justice Stanley John declared bef...
From the Courts
March 22, 2019
A man with 27 previous convictions is set to spend another stint in prison, probably the longest yet, at 24 years, after he attempted to murder his ex...
From the Courts
March 22, 2019
Last Monday, police arrested and jointly charged Curlene Fraser, a 38-year-old manager of South Rivers and Raphika Burnette, a 40-year-old senior cler...
From the Courts
March 22, 2019
A case in which a man killed his common law wife by reckless driving, leaving their three children motherless has been described by the judge as “trag...
From the Courts
March 22, 2019
Three men will no longer have to answer to a charge of stealing $320,000 worth of items from Kendra’s Aluminum, but instead, a reduced sum of $85,722....
From the Courts
March 19, 2019
For displaying “very bad judgment” in concealing $110,000 of stolen cash, a duo could not escape jail time. Kenetta James, a mother of Chateaubelair, ...
From the Courts
March 15, 2019
For robbing a supermarket of $42,000, a Questelles resident has lost his freedom for the next 23 years. Allan Wilson was sentenced last Friday at the ...
From the Courts
March 15, 2019
For the abduction of his common law wife and forcing her to go to a mountain where he raped her, a Questelles man will spend two decades behind bars. ...
From the Courts
March 15, 2019
Bail in the sum of $40,000 with one surety has been allowed at the High Court for Eunice Dowers (née Armachi) with reporting conditions on Mondays and...
From the Courts
March 15, 2019
The investigation launched into an incident in which a police officer is seen in a video hitting a man on the head with a police baton is still ongoin...
From the Courts
March 15, 2019
A 22-year-old resident of Diamond has been charged with the shooting murder of a Victoria Village resident. Alison Soleyn was brought before Chief Mag...
From the Courts
March 8, 2019
The Respondents have asked the judge to reject the evidence of a witness which the lead counsel for New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Lauron Baptis...
From the Courts
March 8, 2019
Evidence submitted on the issue of breach of secrecy must be accepted by the court, as the respondents have not responded to the claim. This is the po...
From the Courts
March 8, 2019
Last Friday, a Chateaubelair resident was sentenced to nine months imprisonment for stealing his cousin’s laptop, which had been a loan from the schoo...
From the Courts
March 5, 2019
Monday March 25 is the date when Leon ‘Bigger Biggs’ Samuel will return to court to answer a charge of obstructing government surveyors. Samuel was ar...
From the Courts
March 5, 2019
It would seem that two brothers recently found guilty of attempted murder, committed the act because one of them fought with another bus conductor ove...
From the Courts
March 5, 2019
A 21-year-old from Greiggs must compensate Massy supermarket in the sum of $6 after stealing cheese from them last Friday. Imran ‘Dollars’ Garrick app...
From the Courts
March 5, 2019
The murder charge against two of three men, who were previously alleged to have killed a Questelles resident in August of last year, has been withdraw...
From the Courts
March 1, 2019
There will be no jail time for a former Customs supervisor who pleaded guilty to theft of $43,626.91 and official corruption. Julia Phillips, who at t...
From the Courts
March 1, 2019
The only saving grace for a Rillan Hill resident on an attempted murder charge was that he admitted to stabbing his victim multiple times. This was th...
From the Courts
March 1, 2019
For robbing a woman of her purse and valuables at gun point, a youngster will be jailed for seven years. These terms were decided at the High Court la...
From the Courts
March 1, 2019
Freedom is not on the cards for the former employee of Star Garage on multiple charges of credit card fraud, involving her then employer’s credit card...
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